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n. [ L. alloquim, fr. alloqui. ] A speaking to another; an address. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Doubtful or ambiguous language. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. anti- + L. loqui to speak. ] Contradiction. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bought p. pr. & vb. n. Buying ] [ OE. buggen, buggen, bien, AS. bycgan, akin to OS. buggean, Goth. bugjan. ] 1. To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. B. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. Prov. xxiii. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

To buy again. See Againbuy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. --
To buy off. (a) To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience. (b) To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party. --
To buy out (a) To buy off, or detach from. Shak. (b) To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A buys out B. (c) To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business. --
To buy in, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership. --
To buy on credit, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day. --
To buy the refusal (of anything), to give a consideration for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To negotiate or treat about a purchase. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will buy with you, sell with you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who buys; a purchaser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of buying; as, buying equipment for the trip took several hours.
Syn. -- purchasing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Business, Finance) the acquisition of ownership of a company by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock.
Syn. -- takeover. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. to take over ownership of; -- of corporations and companies.
Syn. -- take over, buy up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. centum hundred + logui to speak. ] A work divided into a hundred parts. [ R. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖or ‖ } pron. [ Norm. F. ] (Law) He; the one. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cestuy que trust ety>[ norm. F. ], a person who has the equitable and beneficial interest in property, the legal interest in which is vested in a trustee. Wharton. --
Cestuy que use ety>[ Norm. F. ], a person for whose use land, etc., is granted to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Her.) Same as Checky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Colloquies [ L. colloquium. See Collocution. ] 1. Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

They went to Worms, to the colloquy there about religion. A. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dens, dentis, tooth + loqui to speak. ] The habit or practice of speaking through the teeth, or with them closed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dulcis sweet + loqui to speak. ] A soft manner of speaking. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ D. duiker diver + bok a buck, lit., diver buck. So named from its habit of diving suddenly into the bush. ] (Zool.) A small South African antelope (Cephalous mergens); -- called also impoon, and deloo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Dugong. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ F., p. p. of ennuyer. See Ennui. ] Affected with ennui; weary in spirits; emotionally exhausted. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ F. ] One who is affected with ennui. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A woman affected with ennui. Mrs. Jameson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Exequies [ L. exequiae, exsequiae, a funeral procession, fr. exsequi to follow out: cf. OF. exeques. See Exequte. ] A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession. [ 1913 Webster ]

But see his exequies fulfilled in Rouen. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ A kind of cheese made at Gruyère, Switzerland. It is a firm cheese containing numerous cells, and is known in the United States as Schweitzerkäse. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule. [ Local & Collog U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. guia guide, a guy or small rope used on board of ships to keep weighty things in their places; of Teutonic origin, and the same word as E. guide. See Guide, and cf. Gye. ] A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. guyed p. pr. & vb. n. guying. ] To steady or guide with a guy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lady . . . who dresses like a guy. W. S. Gilbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A person of queer looks or dress. [ Chiefly Brit. slang ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A man or young man; a fellow; -- usually contrasted with gals or girls as, it was fun for both the guys and gals; the guys were watching football while the girls played bridge. [ Informal ] [ PJC ]

4. A member of a group of either sex, usually a friend or comrade; -- usually used in the pl.; as, tell the guys to come inside; are any of you guys interested in a game of tennis?. [ Informal ] [ PJC ]

great guy a man who has a very pleasant personality, typically one who is friendly, generous, and pleasant to associate with. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Guyana; as, Jonestown the Guyanese capital. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Guyana; as, Guyanese followers of the religious cult leader died in Jonestown. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A native or inhabitant of Guyana. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To guile. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the French mineralogist Haüy. ] (Min.) A blue isometric mineral, characteristic of some volcanic rocks. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with sulphate of lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. fr. heyday + guise. ] A kind of country-dance or round. [ Obs. ] Spenser.

n. A genus of plants having only one species; East Asian low-growing plant of wet places.
Syn. -- genus Houttuynia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or invented by, Christian Huyghens, a Dutch astronomer of the seventeenth century; as, the Huyghenian telescope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Huyghenian eyepieceSee under Eyepiece. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to buy on impulse without proper reflection. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ Skr. kshatriya one belonging to the military caste. ] The military caste, the second of the four great Hindu castes; also, a member of that caste. See Caste. [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The buying and selling of goods to be shipped from the vendor through the mail to the purchaser. Information about to be purchased may be found in catalogs, advertisements, on the web, etc., and purchase orders transmitted to the vendor by mail, telephone, or internet connection. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ L. multiloquium. ] Excess of words or talk. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus consisting of only one species.
Syn. -- genus Nuytsia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. obloquium, fr. obloqui. See Oblocutor. ] 1. Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall names that made your city the glory of the earth be mentioned with obloquy and detraction? Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cause of reproach; disgrace. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Reproach; odium; censure; contumely; gainsaying; reviling; calumny; slander; detraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Obsequies [ L. obsequiae, pl., funeral rites, fr. obsequi: cf. F. obsèques. See Obsequent, and cf. Obsequious. ] 1. The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will . . . fetch him hence, and solemnly attend,
With silent obsequy and funeral train. Milton [ 1913 Webster ]

I will myself
Be the chief mourner at his obsequies. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The funeral obsequies were decently and privately performed by his family. J. P. Mahaffy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Obsequiousness. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To buy too much. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To buy at too dear a rate. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pauciloquium; paucus little + loqui to speak. ] Brevity in speech. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pectus, -oris, the breast + loqui to speak: cf. F. pectoriloquie. ] (Med.) The distinct articulation of the sounds of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Vexatious; troublesome; tormenting; as, a plaguy horse. [ Colloq. ] Also used adverbially; as, “He is so plaguy proud.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Poy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Roguish. [ Obs. ] L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]